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http://biologos.org/blog/reclaiming-design?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationIn a recent book review published in Christian Century, BioLogos content manager Jim Stump endeavors to reclaim the word “design.”Tue, 21 Jul 2015 02:00:37 -0700Brad KramerFinal Assessments (Reviewing “Darwin’s Doubt”: Robert Bishop, Part 4)http://biologos.org/blog/final-assessments-reviewing-darwins-doubt-robert-bishop-part-4?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/final-assessments-reviewing-darwins-doubt-robert-bishop-part-4?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationThe picture of evolutionary theory and developmental biology presented by Meyer doesn’t help us understand what scientists working in those areas actually do and what their debates actually are about. Nor does his framing help us understand whether evolutionary and developmental biology needs explicit reference to an observable intelligent cause.Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:00:27 -0700Robert C. BishopMeyer’s Inference to Intelligent Design as the Best Explanation (Reviewing “Darwin’s Doubt”: Robert Bishop, Part 3)http://biologos.org/blog/meyers-inference-to-intelligent-design-as-the-best-explanation-reviewing-da?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/meyers-inference-to-intelligent-design-as-the-best-explanation-reviewing-da?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationMeyer’s inference that intelligent agency is the best explanation for the Cambrian explosion depends crucially on taking natural science and human inquiry to be the same. But this is to ignore important differences between these two forms of inquiry and their subjects of study.Mon, 08 Sep 2014 03:00:02 -0700Robert C. BishopTwo Rhetorical Strategies (Reviewing “Darwin’s Doubt”: Robert Bishop, Part 2)http://biologos.org/blog/two-rhetorical-strategies-reviewing-darwins-doubt-robert-bishop-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/two-rhetorical-strategies-reviewing-darwins-doubt-robert-bishop-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationMeyer’s question-shift strategy is to slide from diversification of existing body plans to the origin of the first body plan. Yet, the question of how the first body plan arose isn’t what the biology and paleontology literature discussing the Cambrian is addressing.Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:00:11 -0700Robert C. BishopThe Extended Synthesis (Reviewing “Darwin’s Doubt”: Robert Bishop, Part 1)http://biologos.org/blog/the-grand-synthesis-reviewing-darwins-doubt-robert-bishop-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/the-grand-synthesis-reviewing-darwins-doubt-robert-bishop-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationMany evolutionary and developmental biologists are pursuing an extended synthesis involving population genetics, developmental biology, epigenetics and other recent developments. Yet Stephen Meyer presents their published research as offering an alternative to or replacement for neo-Darwinian evolution.Mon, 01 Sep 2014 03:00:55 -0700Robert C. BishopReviewing “Darwin’s Doubt”: Introductionhttp://biologos.org/blog/reviewing-darwins-doubt-introduction?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/reviewing-darwins-doubt-introduction?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationStephen Meyer and the Discovery Institute seek to make the case for the designer in a purely scientific context, without specifying who the designer is. At BioLogos, we take the approach that science is not equipped to provide a full Christian apologetic.Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:59:44 -0700Deborah HaarsmaCreation, Evolution, and the Over-Active Imagination, Part 2http://biologos.org/blog/creation-evolution-and-the-over-active-imagination-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/creation-evolution-and-the-over-active-imagination-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationThe arts can’t prove reductionism is wrong, but the artist can bear witness to a world in which one type of explanation is never enough. Indeed, in this light, there are some respects in which creationists and evolutionists need each other; at their best they can prevent each other from succumbing to reductionism.Tue, 13 May 2014 04:00:49 -0700Jeremy BegbieCreation, Evolution, and the Over-Active Imagination, Part 1http://biologos.org/blog/creation-evolution-and-the-over-active-imagination-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/creation-evolution-and-the-over-active-imagination-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationIn fact, Paley’s theory was not required by science, and certainly not by orthodox Christianity. It was the product of an over-ambitious imagination, one over-enamored with the metaphor of the world as a machine—as many Christians in the nineteenth century (including John Henry Newman) clearly saw.Mon, 12 May 2014 04:00:57 -0700Jeremy Begbie“The Language of God” Book Club – Chapter 4http://biologos.org/blog/the-language-of-god-book-club-chapter-4?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/the-language-of-god-book-club-chapter-4?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationSome people who brook no “god of the gaps” arguments anywhere else look to these three moments as more reasonable places to insert God into natural processes: God spoke matter/energy into existence, God made life out of lifeless matter, and God breathed a soul into human beings.Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:00:19 -0800Jim StumpScience and the Bible: Intelligent Design, Part 5http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-5?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-5?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationAs we’ve already seen, ID is a “philosophical critique of the explanatory efficacy of Darwinian evolution”, not an alternative “theory of everything.” In my opinion, the inability of ID to offer an alternative history of nature counts crucially against its acceptance by the scientific community.Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:00:02 -0800Ted DavisScience and the Bible: Intelligent Design, Part 4http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-4?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-4?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationOur discussion of Intelligent Design resumes with some conclusions we might draw about it.Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:29:23 -0800Ted DavisScience and the Bible: Intelligent Design, Part 2http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationKeep in mind the basic idea of ID, “that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.”Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:00:37 -0800Ted DavisScience and the Bible: Intelligent Design, Part 1http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/science-and-the-bible-intelligent-design-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationThe term “intelligent design” has been used since at least 1847, in reference to “the theory that matter, the various forms of life, and the world were created by a designing intelligence.” However, the term itself has an interesting history...Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:00:03 -0700Ted DavisAsa Gray and Charles Darwin, Part 3http://biologos.org/blog/asa-gray-and-charles-darwin-discuss-evolution-and-design-part-3?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/asa-gray-and-charles-darwin-discuss-evolution-and-design-part-3?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationGray saw design providing the overall, general plan, but not requiring specific details. Thus he could accept the elimination of unfavorable variations in the same way he could accept that, for the elect, God could work through suffering.Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:21:11 -0700Sara Joan MilesAsa Gray and Charles Darwin, Part 2http://biologos.org/blog/asa-gray-and-charles-darwin-discuss-evolution-and-design-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/asa-gray-and-charles-darwin-discuss-evolution-and-design-part-2?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationHow could an omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent God set up a process that led to a struggle for existence? Darwin expected that Design would be without suffering, teleology without agony, and purpose without pain.Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:22:56 -0700Sara Joan MilesAsa Gray and Charles Darwin Discuss Evolution and Design, Part 1http://biologos.org/blog/asa-gray-and-charles-darwin-discuss-evolution-and-design-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/asa-gray-and-charles-darwin-discuss-evolution-and-design-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationIf Thomas Huxley earned the title of "Darwin's bulldog," then Asa Gray should be remembered as "Darwin's dove." As a Christian firmly anchored in the faith of the Nicene Creed, as well as a professor of botany at Harvard University, Gray was one of the few members of the scientific community to whom Charles Darwin revealed his theory before the publication of Origin of Species in 1859.Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:20:32 -0700Sara Joan MilesFine-tuning and the “Fruitful Universe”http://biologos.org/blog/fine-tuning-and-the-fruitful-universe?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/fine-tuning-and-the-fruitful-universe?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationI ask the question, “Why is the universe so special?” Now scientists don’t like things to be special; we like things to be general, and our natural anticipation would have been that the universe is just a common specimen of what a universe might be like.Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:00:10 -0700John PolkinghorneCaution! Design Arguments Aheadhttp://biologos.org/blog/the-wonder-of-the-universe-caution-design-arguments-ahead?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/the-wonder-of-the-universe-caution-design-arguments-ahead?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationDesign arguments have been around forever and expressed in various ways. Most of them fall into what we call natural theology, which is the process of inferring something about the existence and nature of God by the inspection of nature.Tue, 15 May 2012 07:36:56 -0700Karl GibersonUnderstanding Evolution: The Evolutionary Origins of Irreducible Complexity, Part 1http://biologos.org/blog/understanding-evolution-the-origins-of-irreducible-complexity-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/understanding-evolution-the-origins-of-irreducible-complexity-part-1?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationI will take some time to clarify exactly how Michael Behe, the biochemist and Intelligent Design (ID) proponent who has most extensively developed the "irreducible complexity" argument, uses the term.Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:11:23 -0700Dennis VenemaBeginning with the End in Mindhttp://biologos.org/blog/evolutionary-convergence?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
http://biologos.org/blog/evolutionary-convergence?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationIn today's video, Oxford physicist Ard Louis discusses the famous debate between renowned evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris over the idea of evolutionary convergence.Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:51:27 -0800Ard Louis